Visualizations since May 2010

sexta-feira, 10 de abril de 2015

UNTIL THE LAST DROP - Douro river by...train

From Pocinho to Marco de Canaveses, by trainI leave the
source of the nile with a strong will to go downriver towards egypt, where i
floated the same river many years ago. Between Luxor and Asswan. It is just the
willing, because it is not feasible without preparation. And I don’t have the
time.

To kill the
sorrow, I follow the river of my land, my childhood, my dreams, my commitments.
The Douro. I was born in the same place he dies, in Foz-do-Douro, Porto,
Portugal. It always tasted good its refreshing flavor, sliced by the port wine
mountains it passes through. It always gave me the perfect image of freedom,
the one I carry in my mind. And every time I come back from all the places I go,
here HE is, always welcoming me, always refreshing me, always drawning me with
his freedom

I know well
its curves, for so many times I went him through. But there is always something
else… This time, I took my friends Lucas & Luquinhas and follow the river by…train,
through the overwhelming Douro line, which seats almost entirely in the right riverbank
(between Pocinho and Marco de Canaveses). UNFORGETTABLE. You should try (it is
just pick up the ticket in the railway station and go). You can go in the
morning, from Porto to Pocinho (2,5 hour) have lunch and come down with sunset.
Strongly recommend.

Have a
glance of it in the movie (down the river) with drops of emotions given by the fantastic
sound of Ending Satellites and Michael Chapman & The Woodpiles:

A PhD ON THE ROAD User´s manual

The PhD on the road adventure started in November 2008 and finished in August 2010 and tells the epic event of writing an Engineering PhD while going around the world. The global adventure should be red/seen as the reading of a romance, not all at once. Each post combines text, photos (sometimes small videos), played along with music (in diaporamas) with the respective lyrics being part of the story. Within the whole story, there are small histories that be recognized by the basic title of the movies (movies with the same basic title are chapters of a same small history). The following histories can be found within the whole adventure, apart from some technical and/or isolated movies:

1 - Tuareg (Morocco)

2 - On the Track of Livingstone (Mozambique)

3 - A Love Story (Sri Lanka)

4 - 7 weeks in Tibet (Tibet)

5 - Empires of the East (China)

6 - Making Possible the Impossible (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau)

7 - Uma História de Peão (Brazil)

8 - Arriba Zapata (Mexico)

9 - Learning with the youth (London, Legoland)

10 - Small Things Are Always Great (Porto Santo)

11 - Blowin' in the Wind (Sailing from Porto Santo to Algarve)

12 - Rings of Fire (Guatemala, Mexico and Azores)

13 - When i´m desperate i go talk to my granites (Alvarenga)

14 - Shadows (Alpendorada)

15 - The Thesis (Portugal)

16 - The Obelix Party (Parc Asterix and Granja)

...and after the end of PhD on the road (september 2010), the blog was kept alive with the following histories:

COMBINARTE

My strongest believe is based upon COMBINING.

Combine...the Olive oil and Water, the Heaven and the Hell,Art and Science, and Format and Chaosthe Inteligent and the limited, the "Cool" and the agressive,the Family man and the Adventurer, the domestic and the nigth watcher.And so the Weak becomes Strong when the Strong Weak becomes.Imagine Michael Schumacher driving a donkey. What wouldn´t the donkey gain, and how much higher Schumacher would have gone?